Eye-shade.



W. H. DEGGES.

EYE SHADE.

APYLIOATION FILED MAY s, 1909.

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EYE-SHADE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application filed May 6, 1909. Ser'ial No. 494,246.

To all lwhom it may concern:

lBe it known that I, WILLIAM HAMILTON Deseas, a citizen of the United States, residing at Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented certain new and device of this character which Will be cheapto manufacture and easy of application, and which will have no parts other than those made out of the material of which the shade itself is constructed. i

With this and other objects in View, theinvention consists of certain novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts, as Will be more fully described and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

-In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of one form of the device attached to a pair of spectacle frames; Fig. 2, is a similar view of another form of the invention; Fig. 3, is a plan view of the blank before being bent into the shape shown in Fig. l; and, Fig. 4, is a similar` view of the blank before beingbent into the shape shown in Fig. 2.

Referring more especially to the draw-4 ings, l represents the eye glass frame, 2 the nose piece thereof, and 3 the side pieces or temple bars Which project backwardly along side of the head and frequently extend over the.y ear. A denotes the eye shade. 2

In the form shown in Figs. 1 and 3 the blank forming the eye shade comprises a single sheet o material 4f, preferably made of paper, Celluloid or the like, or of any other suitable material which has sufficient elasticity and flexibility to be bent into shape, and which may have the attaching means formed thereon built' up from the material itself. 'Ihe blank 4, as shown in Fig. 3, comprises a relatively long strip of material curved on the arc of a circle lin the shape of a crescent so that when bent, it Will conform to the usualsh'ape of an eye shade. The body has at each end attaching means, shown as perforations or openings so as to permit of the engagement of the temple bars 3. A number of these perforations or openings are shown so that the device may be readily`adjusted for di'erent Widths of brows.

In-Figs. 2 and 4, I have represented a blank of the same general outllne as that shown in Figs. l and 3, but have provided at the ends of the bod portion reinforcing strips 5, which are 'fo ded over and pasted down on the inner surface of the ends of the shade and cover the perforations or openings-and prevent the entrance of light and at the same time serve as additional attaching means for the temple bars, for the material at the points'of the folds is left open and forms tubular passages 7, (as shown in Fig. 2), through which the temple bars may be threaded and adjusted to position. It is apparent therefore that the temple bars may be threaded through the perforations or openings as. in the construction shown in Fig. l or passed through the tubular passage 7 as shown in Fig. 2, as the user may elect.

From the -foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction and operation'of the invention' will be readily understood Without requiring a more extended exlzlanation.4

Various changes in the form, proportion and the minor details of constructionmay be resorted to Without departing from the prin-' ciple or sacrificing any of the advantages of v this invention.

IIaving thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Pat-y ent is: i

l. A device of the class described, -comprising a single crescent shaped sheet of flexible material having each end thereof folded over and providing means to receive the temple bar of a spectacle frame.

2. A device of the class described, comprising a single crescent shaped sheet of flexible material having a series of openings at each end thereof, said openings adapted to receive the temple bar of a spectacle r frame.

3. A device of the class described comprising a single crescent-shaped sheet of In testimony whereof I have hereunto set flexible material having a series of perforamy hand in presence of two subscribing Wlttions at each end, said perforations adapted to receive `the temple bar of a spectecle -nesses frame, and means secured to the ends over WILLIAM HAMILTON DEGGES. 5 the perforations to reinforce the ends and Witnesses: prevent the entrance of light lthrough the E. EDMoNsToN, J r.,

perforations. E. F. GILL. 

